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The subscription service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.David Cameron's drug policy hypocrisy has garnered reasonable attention in recent weeks, though just how progressive he was before becoming Conservative leader -- from favouring heroin prescribing to pushing for supervised injection sites -- has largely gone unnoticed.
While Twitter was exploding with porcine puns and the Guardian was desperately trying to refocus public attention on Lord Ashcroft’s non-dom status in the wake of snippets from his revelatory biography of Cameron, claims that the Prime Minister had once visited a so-called crack den to find a relative struggling with problematic drug use failed to grab headlines.
Indeed, in a 2002 speech to Parliament debating the conclusions of a Home Affairs Select Committee report on drug policy, Cameron began with a plea citing personal experience of the pain of encountering drug misuse first-hand as the reason for his desire for reform.
“If one takes a slightly progressive -- or, as I like to think
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